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Gore Vidal for Senate 1982
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Mar 15, 2009 03:17am |
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| News Date | Sunday, September 28, 2008 04:05:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | May 25, 1982 - Gore Vidal is a journalist’s dream candidate because unreserved subjects make writing a story easy. Every time you look up from the notebook, they say something more provoking than the last time. Professional politicians love running against them because they can look like the steady alternative, without trying.
The prolific author had his first book on the shelf at the tender age of 21. Yet the siren call of politics drew him to run for a New York Congressional seat in 1960 and for a California Senate seat in 1982.
He worked hard while he was in town, book signing and lecture at Cal Poly, visit to the residents of the Anderson Hotel, and a television interview. The steady royalty checks from popular novels and screenplays somewhat insulated him from the usual grind of working a room for donations. It was a good thing, because there were very few special interests who would give money to an acid-witted author.
Staff writer Larry Bauman wrote:
Why at the age of 65, is Vidal taking a leave from the literary life to become a politician? As he told a Cal Poly audience Tuesday morning: "They asked me why I decided to run this year and I said ‘frustration.’ And I don’t want it written on my tombstone that he always complained but he never did anything about it." |
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